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2003-10-02 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Steve 2003-10-02 11:00:09 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Wha...?! Can't you just...oh, I don't know...maybe turn off their POWER, since you're the POWER COMPANY?

Posted by Dar 2003-10-2 11:07:06 AM|| 2003-10-2 11:07:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Individual metering may not have arrived in Vladivostok yet.

Posted by Shipman 2003-10-2 11:14:51 AM|| 2003-10-2 11:14:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Okay--so I assume that means they can't shut them off at the meter then? Could they snip the wires connecting the house/building or something similar? There has to be some physical connection to the grid that can be severed.

I just don't understand why, if you're owed money, you'd incur additional overhead kidnapping, sheltering, and feeding people's pets--not to mention the legal fees defending yourselves from the lawsuits this will surely bring!

Posted by Dar 2003-10-2 11:28:29 AM|| 2003-10-2 11:28:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Feeding? And wat ist this lawsuit thing, comrade?

Posted by Steve 2003-10-2 11:39:40 AM|| 2003-10-2 11:39:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, maybe I'm just naive, but I had hoped that even in the far-flung reaches of Vladivostok one couldn't be deprived of personal property without due process. Oh, well...

Posted by Dar 2003-10-2 12:41:28 PM|| 2003-10-2 12:41:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 You could cut the power to the building... but that might mean cutting power to 200 people who've paid. I'd send Comrade Reddy Kilowatt to collect in person.

Posted by Shipman 2003-10-2 1:09:48 PM|| 2003-10-2 1:09:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 The crazy ex Soviet system meant that YOU couldn't even shut it off... "central heating" meant just that. So if it was hot unexpectedly you'd sweat in your (still) heated apartment.

But from what I have heard about the electricity service in Vladi, I wouldn't pay them a dime either.

Posted by True German Ally 2003-10-2 2:36:23 PM|| 2003-10-2 2:36:23 PM|| Front Page Top

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